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Originally Posted By po

Something to share. Took the kids to school for open house. The 10 year old boy brought one of his friends to meet me. He says look how old she is.(I have white hair). She even rides a 4 wheeler and does so much stuff that I can't keep up with her. He said it very proud.

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Originally Posted By Mike

Last night was my son's open house at school. Since he goes to the same elementary school I did, it was kinda surreal being back in the parent role. Of course, most of my teachers aren't there anymore. (Accodring to Jimmy, the probably died of old age.) It was kinda neat stopping to see my old first grade teacher, who's still there and still teaching in the same room. Sorry, but I REFUSE to believe that I ever fit at one of those little desks.

Anyway, we got glowing reports from all of his teachers. His homeroom teacher even remarked "I wish I had fifteen more just like him. Then my day would be paradise." Jim has even made the finals in a school-wide art contest to design the new school logo. WOW! I can't even draw a stick man.

On the way home, I told him how proud I was of him and rewarded him with Dairy Queen.

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Originally Posted By Jerry

I went, mom stayed home with the kids. I was surprised at how few parents showed up. Our girls have class sizes from 20 to 22 and there was only 2 of us in one class and 4 in another. Both girls are very bright and have no trouble doing their work. They both have IEP's and time in the EBD class in addition to their regular class. No problems in class, and they're both working hard. The bus is a different story, but we won't go into that now!!

Hey who's in Denver????

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Originally Posted By louise

for Olivia. Yes, I worked out a placement for her, yesterday was her first day. She is being mainstreamed with support. The IEP team was not very enthusiastic but I was able to persuade the Special Education Director to at least attempt the suggestion. Olivia came home yesterday and announced that she had had a GREAT day, it made the effort and hassle worth while. Now on to 4 more back to school events!!!!!!

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I always go as it helps tremendously to know the teachers and let the teachers know that I am available to work with them. I am always impressed at the great things that our school offers. Last spring I initiated an IEP meeting for my daughter as I had seen that 4th grade would be challenging. She gets some extra attention and has gotten A's and B's so far. I couldn't have asked for better results and my daughter is so proud and loves school. My son in 5th grade is learning "responsibility" this year. Sounds good to me.

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Originally Posted By AC

The IEP teachers where very impressive and seemed to really have the program together. Teachers are very receptive and I have a conference schedule for next week. I too was a little shocked at the low turn out of parents. The kids really do enjoy showing off the parent(s).

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We have school choice with 6 public elementary schools K-4 that each have different themes (eg: math, science,etc)

Our school's theme is "traditional" They are taught values and morals with a big focus on community spirit and pride
(the way things were 50 years ago). So our school had about a 80-90% parental turnout to our back-to-school night.

However some of the other schools are not as fortunate to have involved parents so the school board decided that the first report card of the year had to be picked up by a parent from the primary teacher at a scheduled time so she could have a 5-10 minute conference with them.
This has been going on at least 3 or 4 years and has turned out great.

It's nice to have such a great school!